Music Videos

Conceptual:

Jamie xx - Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7gmVWgEpRc

Beady Eye - Flick Of The Finger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqJ-JCzH_xQ

Rise To Remain - Talking In Whispers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzB7vdfmLKU&list=ALYL4kY05133pgiB5jHiTBFHO1I4higBTI


Narrative:

Blur - Coffee and TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoUMlGC4SsM

Eminem (feat Dido) - Stan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOMhN-hfMtY


Performance:

The Skints - Ratatat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoUMlGC4SsM

Blood Red Shoes - Cold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-yxwXIrQ-E

How did you attract/address your audience?

To attract my audience most of my efforts went into the front cover.  The cover contains a very bold colour scheme that draws your eye.  Also the sky line is bright yellow and is advertising a competition that is being held in the magazine and this will capture the audiences attention.  I also used artists such as Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, Bring Me The Horizon among others on my cover lines which are artists my target audience would be interested in.  I used Arctic Monkeys as they are super hot right now and they link in with the competition being held as they are one of the headliners for Reading and Leeds this year.  For each of the pages I designed I had a clear and eye-catching colour scheme e.g. front cover is red, contents page is blue and my double page spread is grey.  As with the magazines I analysed they also feature bold and interesting colour schemes which fit the generic conventions and I used these as a source for inspiration.  As I found out with the questionnaire I asked they responded that the most interesting feature to them in a music magazine are band interviews, which are clearly visible on the front cover.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The target audience for my particular music magazine are teenagers aged 16-19 years old, so hence forth that is why I have specifically aimed the magazine at this age demographic.  The models I used are both aged 16-17 years old which helps the audience identify with the magazine better and they are both male and female as the magazine is unisex and appeals to both genders.  Apart from their physical description their clothes also helps them to be identified as being that age and also they can easily be associated as being indie artists.  The genre of music that is featured in the magazine is usually associated with the audience being this age and this will fit the audiences expectations. The price for the magazine is rather cheap and affordable for your common teenager as it is only £2.99 and I carried out a questionnaire to find out this particular piece of information.

Double Page Spread Evolution

1.  I started by making two pages with three text boxes for me to fill in with text.  Though it doesn't look very impressive at the moment it will soon shape to resemble a double page spread that can easily be identified as being from a music magazine.

2.  I changed the background colour to grey as well as changing the text colour to white as this is both easy to read and eye-catching as well as placing page numbers on at the bottom of the page.  I also imported two original images which I had taken and placed them hear.

3.  I was nearly finished with writing the text at this point and I had adjusted the size of the text so then it would take up more room.

4.  I finally finshed writing and yet again changed the text size and as this is how my final product stands today.

Contents Page Evolution

1.  At the start I originally had one of my images that would later go on to be featured on my double page spread.  I changed it as I thought this image didn't really work on this particular page.  I wrote up what was to be featured on the pages and made the background a light green.








2.  I had a play around with having just one image being featured on the contents page but I found that this didn't work as the enlarging of the image made it blurry and pixelated.












3.  I ordered the contents into categories very much like the Kerrang contents page I analysed.  I went back to having two images on this page as I thought that one image wasn't enough.












4.  I changed the background to light blue and also put a page number for the Bloc Party story as I had forgotten to do it before.

The Evolution Of My Front Cover

The picture at the top is my magazine front cover originally looked before I received any audience feedback on the front cover.  The other image is of my finished picture of my final front cover after all the improvements people had recommended I make.  As you can clearly see the cover lines have been moved either side of the image so that they don't just fit into a column.  Due to the movement of the cover lines I have had to make more to fill out the cover.  Also I changed the colour of them to white so they are much more visible and it is a big improvement.  I slightly adjusted the masthead by making the name of my music magazine slightly larger.  Though no one mentioned that the first image was lacking an issue number I noticed while I was improving it and I finally inserted one.











                                                                                   

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

The preliminary task of making a college magazine has helped a lot as it has been like a rough draft and since then I have made great progress and have become more familiar with the software which has helped me improve.  One of the most useful parts of doing the preliminary task was the feedback I received the teacher which told me both my strengths and weaknesses and where I could improve apon certain aspects.  Another part that has helped was that I wasn’t introduced straight away to the final piece but I could instead practise and hone my skills on this preliminary task.  I got to become used to taking photos and editing them in photoshop as well as being introduced to proegrammes that I have never used before e.g. Scribd, Prezi etc.